Wow, awesome. I’ll be counting the days until Blackmail and I look forward to having an almost complete Hitchcock collection.

And then there are at least three versions of Murder: the full length version, a shorter edit with a different ending, and Mary, the German language (nearly) shot for shot version Hitchcock directed concurrently. Would love to see at least full length and Mary if not all three versions.

Scream and Scream Again (1970)with optional English subtitles• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
• TRAILERS FROM HELL with Mick Garris
• Reversible Blu-ray Art
• Trailers for TALES OF TERROR, TWICE-TOLD TALES, WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP, DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE, DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS, MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE, THE OBLONG BOX, SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN, MADHOUSE and HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS

THE EARTHLING (1980)
• Brand New 2K Masters
• Includes both the 96-minute US cut and the 99-minute alternate International Cut
• 3 Deleted Scenes (no audio)
• Theatrical Trailer

Color 97 | 99 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated PG
Screen icon William Holden (The Devil’s Brigade, The Revengers) delivers the performance of a lifetime in this poignant action-adventure with stunning scenery from Australia’s New South Wales. Patrick Foley (Holden) is a hard-hearted, no-nonsense loner who spent his life exploring the world and avoiding his feelings. When he returns to his remote Australian birthplace, he is met with more than the average outback wildlife… fate throws him together with young Shawn Daley (Ricky Schroeder, The Champ, TV’s Silver Spoons), a recently orphaned, city-bred boy with little hope and even less self-reliance. How can he take a pampered little child into perilous, wild country without risking both their lives? The Earthling is a spectacular, thought-provoking drama, beautifully shot by Donald McAlpine (Moulin Rouge!) and co-starring Jack Thompson (Breaker Morant). The final film in the glorious career of director Peter Collinson (The Italian Job, The Sell-Out), who died at age 44 from cancer a few months after the release of this film, and second-to-last film of the legendary William Holden.

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Coming March 19th on DVD and Blu-ray!

LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS (1970) with optional English subtitles
• BRAND NEW HD MASTER FROM A 4K SCAN OF THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
• AUDIO COMMENTARY BY FILM HISTORIAN LEE GAMBIN
• KLSC TRAILERS

Color 104 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated R
First comes love, then comes marriage… then come loads of laughs in this critically acclaimed hit comedy. As Mike (Michael Brandon, Four Flies on Grey Velvet) and Susan (Bonnie Bedelia, Die Hard) prepare to walk down the aisle, the groom gets a case of cold feet. Turning to friends and family for support can send the couple running for matrimonial cover: Susan’s father is fooling around with her mother’s best friend; Mike’s brother is divorcing his high school sweetheart; his parents are living a loveless lie. The rocky road to happily-ever-after has never been so uproarious as in this vividly real and genuinely funny movie. Directed by Cy Howard with a screenplay by Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman, based on the hit play by the husband-and-wife team of Taylor and Bologna. The stellar cast includes Bea Arthur (TV’s The Golden Girls and Maude), Richard Castellano (The Godfather), Harry Guardino (Madigan), Cloris Leachman (Scavenger Hunt), Gig Young (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?) and Diane Keaton (The Good Mother) in her film debut. Oscar®-nominated for Supporting Actor (Castellano) and Adapted Screenplay (Bologna, Goodman, Taylor), it won the Oscar® for Best Song, “For All We Know,” music by Fred Karlin and lyrics by Robb Royer and Jimmy Griffin.

Color 100 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated R
Hollywood icon Tom Cruise (Top Gun) in his first starring role has everything to gain—and a certain something to lose—when he crosses paths with Shelley Long (Hello Again) in this rambunctious road-trip comedy set in the wild and wacky sixties. When all-American high-schooler Woody (Cruise) and his Sinatra-obsessed pal Dave (Jackie Earle Haley, Watchmen) decide that it’s time to lose their virginity, they enlist the help of their “more experienced” friend Spider (John Stockwell, Christine) and head south-of-the-border. Now, in a hilariously raunchy search for cheap booze—and even cheaper thrills—the intrepid trio will run into fast-food floozies, crooked cops and a close encounter with a doubting would-be divorcée (Long) that will change Woody’s life forever. Wonderfully directed by Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, The Bedroom Window) with a screenplay by B.W.L. Norton (Convoy).

FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)with optional English subtitles• Audio Commentary with Director Todd Haynes
• The Making of "Far From Heaven"
• Anatomy of a Scene - Featurette
• A Filmmaker's Experience with Julianne Moore and Todd Hayes
• Theatrical Trailer

Color 107 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated PG-13
Julianne Moore (Safe) and Dennis Quaid (D.O.A.) star in this seductive story of a seemingly perfect family, and the forbidden desires that threaten to tear it apart. Cathy Whitaker (Moore) has it all—a lovely home, two wonderful children and a handsome husband (Quaid) who is successfully climbing the corporate ladder. But Cathy’s idyllic existence is just an illusion, and she eventually must choose between living a lie or following her heart. Written and directed by Todd Haynes (Carol) and co-starring Dennis Haysbert (Love Field), Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent) and Viola Davis (The Help). FAR FROM HEAVEN garnered rave reviews and was NOMINATED FOR 4 ACADEMY AWARDS® including ACTRESS (Moore), ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Haynes), ORIGINAL SCORE (Elmer Bernstein) and CINEMATOGRAPHY (Edward Lachman).

Excited to own more Haynes on Blu! I saw Far From Heaven theatrically both on its initial release and a couple of years ago as part of a festival tribute to Ed Lachman, and its lush colors and and subtly complicated lighting should look great in HD.

(1954) Color 92 Minutes 1.66:1 Not Rated
The star and director of 1953 3-D hit Sangaree, team up again in this romantic and thrilling adventure in glorious Technicolor. Jivaro also known as Lost Treasure of the Amazon stars Fernando Lamas (100 Rifles), Rhonda Fleming (Those Redheads from Seattle), Brian Keith (The Rare Breed), Lon Chaney Jr. (Big House, U.S.A.), Richard Denning (Target Earth), Rita Moreno (West Side Story) and directed by Edward Ludwig (Wake of the Red Witch). Alice Parker (Fleming) arrives at the Brazilian trading outpost of Rio Galdez (Lamas) in search of her fiancé, Jerry Russell (Denning), an alcoholic engineer who has ventured into a headhunter country on a quest for gold. Jivaro was released released flat in 1954, this 3-D Blu-ray release is the official 3-D premiere of the film.

B&W 91 Minutes 2.35:1 Not Rated
Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, The Tarnished Angels covers three days in the lives of a trio of flying-circus performers, headlined by former WWI fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann (Robert Stack, Bwana Devil) and his beautiful blonde wife, LaVerne (Dorothy Malone, The Last Sunset). Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson, Blindfold) falls in love with LaVerne while covering their daredevil aerial show. Legendary filmmaker Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, Imitation of Life) directed this masterpiece based on a novel by William Faulkner (The Reivers), adapted for the screen by George Zuckerman (99 River Street).

Color 132 Minutes 2.35:1 Rated R
Screen legends Clint Eastwood (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) and Lee Van Cleef (Sabata) co-star as two rival bounty hunters who join forces to bring murderous bandit El Indio (Gian Maria Volontè, Face to Face) and his vicious gang of criminals to justice. But all is not as it seems in this hard-hitting second installment of Sergio Leone’s (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) trilogy starring Eastwood as the famed “Man with No Name.” Music by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dynamite, The Mercenary) with a stellar cast that includes spaghetti western legends Mario Brega (A Fistful of Dollars), Luigi Pistilli (Death Rides a Horse), Aldo Sambrell (Navajo Joe) and Klaus Kinski (The Great Silence).

This is a fun, suspenseful bank robbery thriller. A Canadian tax shelter film with an American star, director and screenwriter (Christopher Plummer is the best-known talent involved in the movie who's Canadian). Of course I just bought the DVD last summer.